Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-02-06
SPORTING.
BASE BALL.

BASE BALL.
Freddy" Mack always carries a tooth
/ which he had knocked out on the field,
and places it under the second base as n
mascot.
The Marietta Chair Company have Sc
cured the contract for furnishing chairs for
the grand stand and private boxes at Recre-
alton Park.
The Baltimores will make a good draw
ing card next season. Besides having a
goodly share of new men, the team Will
have some of the best advertised players on
the diamond.
Thirteen thousand dollars have been Of
fered to the st. Louis League Club for the
release of Glasscock, Denny and Boyle.
How much do they want?
The Southern League will 90 on with
the six clubs already formed, unless there
are good signs within the next week that
two more teams can be put in the fed.
Louisvillians are very much elated over
the splendid records their players are
making in California. Visions of the
championship are accordingly numerous.
It's dollars to cents that the st. Louis
Browns won't win the champiOnshipnext
season unless Won der Abe increases sal
aries. Suits of clothes and worlds cham
pionship contests won't work in the
future.
A bill to prevent the playing of base ball
OH Sunday has been introduced in the
Illinois House. Players may be fined from
SO to 5000, spectators from s. to 800 and
persons betting on the grounds from 800
to 81 1000.
This is what President Won der Abe says
about his st Louis club: They have all
got the big head. Last season they made
500 each, extra, i'll the contest with the
Chicago club. Their success and the incon-
siderate and lavish praises Of the public
have actually turned some of their heads.
To make the matter worse. some oil the
League clubs are bidding for them"
With the new blood which has been in
fused into the Athletics and Frank Bancroft
to manage them, and the Cincinnatis under
their reorganization plan, the Allegheny
team out OF the race, what club is willing
to have last place in the Association? Bar
ME does not want it, and with his Newark
adjunct it does not look as though he would
be called upon to do the honors ofrear guard
this year.
Any manager in search of players need
only make q trip through Connecticut and
he will find plenty OF good ones on every
hand. There is u lack Of batteries, but
fielders and batsmen are rs thick rs blue
berries in bcrrying time. Manager Shan
non, OF Bridgeport, recently sent q list OF
fifteen or twenty good mel to the Brock
ton manager from which to select a team.
All were the names of men he cOuld recon-
mend, and nearly all were from Connect
cut.
The dissolution of the MaroOns will
bring about some fine work in the distri-
button of their players. Messrs. Young,
Spalding and Day are the League Commit
tee. Mr.. Young is President OF the
League, and, of course, rs that officer, will
desire harmony. Mr.. Spalding is Presi-
dent of the Chicagos, and naturally will
want GlaSScoek; and Mr.. Day, who is
President of the New Yorks, will be salts
fled with Denny. And everybody gets
what they want. See?
Some clubs, probably, would like to
have BurdOck if it were not for the bonus
they would be compelled to pay for his re-
lease. Birdie is indebted to the Boston
club to the extent of about $1,000 for
money advanced for the support OF his
family, when he was not in condition to
make any return in the way OF services,
and it will require about that sum to Sc
cure his release.
Baldwin, upon whom the DetrOitS have
been pinning such strong hopes for next
year, says that he is afraid the new rules
are going to hurt him. What he fears
mostly is hat he Will wrench his back i'll
standing nearly still in delivering the ball.
He is not Il strong man, physically, and 1t
was the weakness in his book that made it
impossible last season for him to do more
work in the box than he did. He is more
apt to underrate his ability than to appear
egotistical in the matter, however, and his
friends hope that there is not any real
foundation for his apprehension.